paint.net 5.0.7 is now available!

[Rick Brewster]

This is a small update with some quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes.

Get the Update

There are two releases of Paint.NET:

• Microsoft Store release (recommended)
  • You can purchase it here. This helps fund development and is an alternative or supplement to sending in a donation.
  • If you already have it installed, the update should happen automatically once Microsoft certifies the update, usually within the next day or so. To get the update immediately (once it's certified), you can follow the instructions listed here.
     
• Classic Desktop release
  • Download the installer from the website. This is the recommended download if you don't have Paint.NET installed. It can also be used to update the app.
  • If you already have it installed, you should be offered the update automatically within the next few days, but you can also get it immediately by going to ⚙ Settings -> Updates -> Check Now.
  • Offline Installers and Portable ZIPs are available over on GitHub.

Change Log

Changes since v5.0.6:

• New: Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down can now be used to switch between tabs
• Improved: The selection highlight is now hidden when the Layer Properties dialog is open
• Improved: The Move Selection Tool will not be forced to commit its state when the image is being saved, thus preserving history entries
• Changed the icon for Contiguous mode (Magic Wand and Paint Bucket tools) to have better contrast with the icon for Global mode
• Fixed: Shortcut keys are now listed for the tooltips in the Layers and History windows and for the selection combine modes in the toolbar. The help text for the Magic Wand and Paint Bucket tools also notes that holding Shift will use Global mode.
• Fixed the Edit -> Copy and Copy Merged menu items from being incorrectly enabled when no image is open
• Fixed an issue where the selection highlight would not appear in some cases
• Fixed some rare rendering artifacts for GPU plugins when using the CPU for rendering
• Fixed an infinite loop when using BoltBait's Apply Mask twice, on two separate images with a different number of layers
• Removed the /setenv command-line parameter
• Updated the bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin to v1.11.9.0 (thanks @null54!)

[amongusdrip]

Poggers.

[Tactilis]

On 6/24/2023 at 10:15 PM, Rick Brewster said:

New: Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down can now be used to switch between tabs

I'm just wondering why Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down have been used to switch between tabs when the key combinations that people are most used to, for example in their browser, are:

Ctrl+Page Up       Switch to tab to the left
Ctrl+Page Down  Switch to tab to the right


The Ctrl+Shift operations are used for:

Ctrl+Shift+Page Up       Move current tab to the left
Ctrl+Shift+Page Down  Move current tab to the right

The original request at https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/121686-suggestion-ctrlpgupdn-and-ctrlshiftpgupdn-to-navigate-between-tabs-and-reorder-them

was for exactly as I've described above.

Has Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down been implemented in error?

If it has, then it would be good if it could be corrected to Ctrl+Page Up/Down asap please? With a possible later addition of Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down for Move tab.

[Roger the Dodger]

I highly commend the hard work Rick puts into my favourite Paint/Photo Editor, Thank you☺️

[Rick Brewster]

4 hours ago, Tactilis said:

I'm just wondering why Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down have been used to switch between tabs when the key combinations that people are most used to, for example in their browser, are:

Ctrl+Page Up       Switch to tab to the left
Ctrl+Page Down  Switch to tab to the right


The Ctrl+Shift operations are used for:

Ctrl+Shift+Page Up       Move current tab to the left
Ctrl+Shift+Page Down  Move current tab to the right

The original request at https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/121686-suggestion-ctrlpgupdn-and-ctrlshiftpgupdn-to-navigate-between-tabs-and-reorder-them

was for exactly as I've described above.

Has Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down been implemented in error?

If it has, then it would be good if it could be corrected to Ctrl+Page Up/Down asap please? With a possible later addition of Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down for Move tab.

 

Yeah that seems to be a mistake -- I probably read the post too fast. I see now that Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down is for reordering tabs (e.g. in Chrome).

[Lemonade]

Same here. Only after Tactilis post I went to original suggestion post and read it again, twice.

In version 5.0.7 zoom level display shows (px) ScaleFactor.Percentage.Format.
After closing and opening Paint.net, it does show normal percentage number.

Edited June 27 by Lemonade

[Rick Brewster]

2 minutes ago, Lemonade said:

In version 5.0.7 zoom level display shows (px) ScaleFactor.Percentage.Format.
After closing and opening Paint.net, it does show normal percentage number.

 

Probably just a spurious/temporary glitch. That string hasn't been changed recently.

[Tactilis]

6 hours ago, Rick Brewster said:

Yeah that seems to be a mistake -- I probably read the post too fast. I see now that Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down is for reordering tabs (e.g. in Chrome).

Thanks for the quick response.

Ctrl+Page Up/Down to switch tabs is so ingrained in muscle memory from use of Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and many other apps with a tabbed interface that it was quite a shock to see that Ctrl+Shift had been used in Paint.NET.

NB. I'm going to submit a separate feature request regarding (optional) behaviour of Ctrl+Tab, with justification as to why it would improve workflow. But it was important to know that Ctrl+Page Up/Down keys will be doing the right thing first.

Thanks again.
 

[NinthDesertDude]

Thanks for the update. Idle thought, should we make it a habit to say on release threads, since they're dependable for each version and the PDN documentation strives to be up to date, when it's been updated to mention all changes in the release (in this case, the new keyboard shortcuts)? That convention would probably help avoid anything slipping through.

[Rick Brewster]

Newer update now available: